Match Threads Spurs vs Arsenal

[Hazelton]

What a pointless change.

 

[cookiemonster]

BMJ lost his job because we couldn’t defend from corners

Osvaldo Ardiles lost his job because we concede a tonnof goals

 

[arunspurs]

The scoreline is hiding the fact we've not been that bad. Apart from at set pieces which we really need to sort out.

Romero could have had 2. The VAR call was as tight as they come and Saka's goal was a clear penalty for Kulusevski.

Fine margins decide this game and they've all gone VARsenal's way. Shame as it could have been a good game.

I have the complete opposite view...

Arsenal are 1st gear, doing bare minimum knowing, exactly how to score against us. Tactically they are well setup. Even if we score those goals, Arsenal still have the gears to shift.
Scoreline is showing exactly how the 2 teams were tactically set up. Team that winning has ofcourse already won it tactically

 

[kitchen]

They let us have the ball.

And we nearly scored. Many times. Fine margins. Take your chances or don't. We've had 8 shots to their 4, and Hojberg scored for them.

 

[UbeAstard]

sigh

See you next year.

Yes, hes building a winning mentality and we need to be braver blah, blah.

 

[SlotBadger]

If we’re going to lose, I’m not above us injuring several players (nothing serious, just to miss the rest of the season. I’m kind like that).

 

[parj]

maybe but Arsenal have had plenty of these given this season alone.

City the other night.

Etc etc

We haven't had a single call like that.

I'm not saying I want to see these given as pens but it does leave a sour taste when others get them and we don't.

Especially in pivotal moments of the game

Look I dont disagree that Arsenal have been lucky with VAR, but if PEH does this job and actually reads the game and sees the switch on, then Davies has an extra body. If Maddison moves the ball around quicker, we might get more chances. All midfield players have been sh!t so far.

 

[midoshairband]

And yet these are our “leaders” weak as piss mentality from top to bottom of the club. As long as we’re making money, the results don’t matter.
Been saying we’ve been poor for weeks and yet dogs abuse every time.
Now we’re 3-0 at ht AT HOME IN A NLD! And they’ve not even played that fucking well! Utter farce of a football team! Hook Maddison and son and HT. should have had mikey Moore on bench, probably play with more passion than son! Jokers!

agreed mate.

said in the Udogie thread last week, it's not about Davies stepping up, it's about Maddison and Son. been anonymous for a long time, a real disappointment.

 

[tobi]

No hesitation to hook Bentancur (or Sarr) but never a vice/captain.

 

[Chimbo!]

Bentancur was one of our better players that half. I don’t get it

 

[TallBlokePH]

I thought Bentancur was okay. Better than Højbjerg, at least, yet he’s the one sacrificed?

Bit more defensive in the middle maybe? I mean, I'm not sure how that helps with last-man defending or not conceding from corners mind you

 

[tommo84]

You could get up lol

You don’t know me at all do you!

 

[RuskyM]

The high line system is killing us throughout the whole season


And you are talking about individual goals.. ..do you even know football?

a) Fuck off being patronising.
b) I keep hearing it's the high line, but the first goal was due to us losing the ball in our own defensive third. The second, sure. The third? A set piece. Do we have a problem defensively? Yeah, but just saying "a high line is embarrassing" is suggesting you're the one that doesn't really know football, because there's a reason Villa and City both use a very high line.

 

[fuzzylogic]

Got a bottle of wine in the freezer chilling for a bit for later but fuck this I'm going baws deep in it now.

 

[Tucker]

I like the bloke and it's awful what happened to him but Ryan Mason is not good enough as a coach and is stealing a living at this point.

The fuck has this got to do with Mason?

You do know he’s in charge of the attacking set pieces and Jedinak is doing the defensive ones, right?

 

[djhotspur]

Why leave maddison on

 

[Beni]

Hate that Bentancur is always the fall guy and subbed when there are other options and players out there playing worse.

 

[Impspur1]

The first two I'll give you. The peh one is definitely on the coaching. Watch them at every set piece. Just stood still waiting for the ball to drop on their heads.

That is 100% how we are set up to play. Not to check for runners, not to protect the keeper and not to attack the ball from a running start. They are to protect their 2 square metres of the area and get rid of anything that drops into that zone.

So what the opposition does is say right I'm going to put three players into that 2m area all with a running starts, and it's impossible to deal with.

That's what happened to PEH.

Fair enough and in that case that’s on the coaching team and manager

 

[felmani26]

Great marking with Tomiyasu there guys….

 

[stormfly]

I wonder if there is some study about Spurs fans being more loyal and likely to accept sub stand relationships due to our club affiliations!?

I like to call is resilience.